A small group of people living in a squalid village at Germany’s coast follows the invitation of a Medium and gathers in a lone house. It is the eve of December 24th, 1721. These Villagers have been haunted by the same spirit since a terrible flood killed more than a third of all residents four years ago. Like all the people who died that night, this spirit, too, returns to the village once a year. They come to mourn their death, but also to seek justice.
The Villagers know or at least suspect why they have been singled out. They all played a part in the brutal passing of this person: bystander, aide, or murderer. According to the Medium, the haunting can only be stopped if the Villagers invite the Ghost into their midst, return a sense of self to what once was a person, and confess what each of them did that night four years ago: “Honesty,” the Medium stresses, “is your only way out. You will suffer tonight, may even die, but, if you do, it is with a chance for redemption.”
Needless to say, not every Villager joins the séance for the sake of doing penance. They may, instead, seek the path of deception to protect themselves or someone else at the table. Lying comes at a cost, however, and will put everyone present in danger, as each lie told stokes the Ghost’s pain and its wrath.
Stille Nacht is a supernatural one-shot roleplaying game played in scenes for 2 to 4 players and 1 game master (GM). Reversing the usual setup of a TTRPG, it is the players who create the world and its narrative, while the GM, in the role of a ghost, becomes a collector of narrative breadcrumbs, a detective whose memory is unreliable but thirsts for the truth—or a truth.
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Stille Nacht || Silent Night is still in development. I had a lot of fun running the first test games at the end of '19. This version incorporates the wonderful feedback I received from my test players. Now I need y'all's help to work out the remaining kinks!
If you take the time to play this game with your friends and forward your feedback, no matter how detailed, you will not only have my profound gratitude but will also be listed in the thank you-section for all my test players in all future versions of the game.
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Version: 1.1
PDF, 14 pages
The Villagers know or at least suspect why they have been singled out. They all played a part in the brutal passing of this person: bystander, aide, or murderer. According to the Medium, the haunting can only be stopped if the Villagers invite the Ghost into their midst, return a sense of self to what once was a person, and confess what each of them did that night four years ago: “Honesty,” the Medium stresses, “is your only way out. You will suffer tonight, may even die, but, if you do, it is with a chance for redemption.”
Needless to say, not every Villager joins the séance for the sake of doing penance. They may, instead, seek the path of deception to protect themselves or someone else at the table. Lying comes at a cost, however, and will put everyone present in danger, as each lie told stokes the Ghost’s pain and its wrath.
Stille Nacht is a supernatural one-shot roleplaying game played in scenes for 2 to 4 players and 1 game master (GM). Reversing the usual setup of a TTRPG, it is the players who create the world and its narrative, while the GM, in the role of a ghost, becomes a collector of narrative breadcrumbs, a detective whose memory is unreliable but thirsts for the truth—or a truth.
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Stille Nacht || Silent Night is still in development. I had a lot of fun running the first test games at the end of '19. This version incorporates the wonderful feedback I received from my test players. Now I need y'all's help to work out the remaining kinks!
If you take the time to play this game with your friends and forward your feedback, no matter how detailed, you will not only have my profound gratitude but will also be listed in the thank you-section for all my test players in all future versions of the game.
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Version: 1.1
PDF, 14 pages
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